Saturday, December 24, 2011

Ygolonac - Strange Aeons

Apologies for the unexplained absence for the preceding fortnight, gentle ones, but rest assured that posting will resume with gusto upon the arrival of the new year. In the meantime, share with me this horrid lump of coal that I found in my inbox. Another mad one man metal band in the mode of Brown Jenkins or Aarni, this Ygolonac seems fixated on the fictional grimoires of the Mythos, from what can be deciphered from the song titles and the band name. Ygolonac is the lord of the perverse and sadistic, the only Old One outside of insidious Nyarlathotep capable of taking human form, and notorious for the ravenous mouths screaming for blood from his palms and groin, traditionally cast in the role of curating the library of suppressed tomes which tend to drive mundane minds into madness. Ramsey Campbell's brutal and bitterly funny "Cold Print" is perhaps the finest Lovecraftian story produced in the seventies, and while the retro vibe of this nasty debut is probably meant to transcend time and space, I can sense a little disco cokestache under all the noise, maybe just slowed down 800x.

I hope you're alright, I wouldn't like my favourite musical blogger to be feasted upon by Shoggoths or other unspeakable things...+ I need constant supply of Zannish music, since I'm reading collected works of Master HPL...

CAVEAT EMPTOR

It shall be duly noted that all sounds contained within, whether sublime or most horrible, remain solely for the purposes of research and shall not be transmitted onto any other frequency. All responsibility lies, once this narrow threshold is crossed, with you, gentle reader. I shall do my best to assist your journey should things go awry, but be forewarned: This way lies madness.